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Adrian Wojnarowski ‏@WojYahooNBA 8s
Andrew Bynum has left the Indiana Pacers, team says. Knee issue never resolved and he'll no longer be with Pacers in playoffs.
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This dude is an even bigger joke than Oden, can't believe i wanted him on the team at one point.
 
Misery loves company - at least OKC and BKN were blown out, too! If we had been the only ones it would have been that much worse...like that Sesame Street "One of these things do not belong" skit.
 
Has anyone noticed that Oden hasn't even played in garbage time for Miami?
 
Fez Hammersticks said:
Has anyone noticed that Oden hasn't even played in garbage time for Miami?
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He's been injured for over a month with "back spasms", but the reality is that Roy Hibbert destroyed him, and Spoelstra has only played one time since. He's done.

Let’s start with the end because it is easier to pinpoint. We know the exact date. The end for the Greg Oden experiment came on March 26, 2014. That was the day that every hope and illusion about this latest comeback shattered.

Everybody wanted that comeback. For him. He deserved it. Oden had missed almost four years of basketball when Miami signed him for the minimum before the season began. He deserved good things.

And this looked like a good setup. Nobody expected Greg Oden to suddenly be the superstar everyone expected six or seven years ago. But, in the least, he looked like potential Kryptonite for Indiana’s big man Roy Hibbert. You will remember that last year the Heat had a ferocious seven-game series with Indiana and they could do nothing at all with Hibbert, who averaged 22 points and 10 boards for the series. It didn’t matter what Spoelstra tried, the Heat did not have a Hibbert answer.

Well Greg Oden is a 7-footer, 250-plus pounds, he could pound on Hibbert and weigh on him and foul him and frustrate him. Sure, if Oden recaptured some of his lost talent, everyone would cheer. But, at the least, he could slow Hibbert.

That dream ended on March 26. The Heat had slowly worked Oden into the lineup. From the start of the new year, they put him in a few games for five- and six-minute stretches just to get him some time on the court. Ten days before the big game against Indiana, they put him in the starting lineup. He flashed a few positive signs. He scored six, grabbed three rebounds, blocked a couple of shots at Cleveland. He made both his shots and blocked two more against Memphis.

And on March 26, he started against Indiana – a homecoming for Oden, who went to High School in Indianapolis. Everyone was watching this time. And … lets just say it did not go well. If it had been a fight, they would have stopped it. Well, in truth, they did stop it. Hibbert did everything he wanted for six minutes, Oden was utterly helpless, and after six minutes Spoelstra could not watch anymore. He pulled Oden and did not put him back in … for three weeks.

In fact, Oden has played in just one game since the end – 13 uninspired minutes in an entirely meaningless game against a putrid Philadelphia team. He has not played again. The official explanation for Oden’s disappearance was that he has had “back spasms.” He undoubtedly has had back spasms. But …

“Terrible,” Oden told reporters after the Hibbert game. He knew. He was heartbroken. This haunted pro basketball career of his just won’t ever let Greg Oden breathe.
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Wow, both Westbrook and Mr Unreliable have 30+ points and are 1 assist shy of a triple double. Amazing.
 
I am really impressed with Steven Adams game, he adapted quickly to the NBA for a young center.
 
Oden wasn't even dressed in uniform for the Heat game. Hopefully he's out partying, because his NBA paychecks are about to end.
 
So, if Apple buys Beats, Dre will be a billionaire. Do you think he buys a majority stake in the Clippers?
 
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